Anyone have an Aegia Physix card?

thej6m

I know games like Auto Assault and City of Villains support the card and I was wondering if the $200 investment was worth it. Thanks.

XXen

I dont think there is atm any MMO that supports a PhysiXs Card, as there are still only a few FPS that support those cards.

I would rather put that money into Graphic Card, RAM or general System Upgrade.

LordSlater

Originally posted by thej6m

I know games like Auto Assault and City of Villains support the card and I was wondering if the $200 investment was worth it. Thanks.

It wont ever be worth it because whqat the card does is provide a dedicated processor for Physics and because we are getting Quad core PC's soon [thats 4 cpu's in one slot] Developers can assign say 1 processor to just the Physics side of things therefore doing the same thing exept you have no fancy Physics card.

 

And soon we will get even more CPU's crammed onto one chip.

Jackcolt

No, no and no. Buy a more powerful gfx card, gain performance and save some money.



PPUs will either be integrated in the GFX card, Mobo, or even as a part of the CPU. At least that's what I think.

desnow

Originally posted by LordSlater

It wont ever be worth it because whqat the card does is provide a dedicated processor for Physics and because we are getting Quad core PC's soon [thats 4 cpu's in one slot] Developers can assign say 1 processor to just the Physics side of things therefore doing the same thing exept you have no fancy Physics card. 
And soon we will get even more CPU's crammed onto one chip.

It doesn't quite work like that, but you are correct in saying that a better processor will do more for you overall since most games can't even use the card. The processors in multi-cores run into bandwidth issues, electrical momentum issues (physical limitations) and other things that prevent you from getting 4 times the power out of a quad core...you start getting diminishing returns on various instruction sets. You move into MIPs processors and things change, but M$ doesn't like those so most people don't have them.

I agree with the poster mentioning adding the chipsets to video cards. If that happens then expect companies to start implementing the coding to use it very quickly much like HDR (and other features) were added quickly by Valve and others. The solo card which only works with a fairly small number of games just isn't worth it.